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Alkylphenolic compounds and risk of breast and prostate cancer in the MCC-Spain study

Environment International, 2019
Background: Alkylphenolic compounds are chemicals with endocrine disrupting properties that have been widely used in industry with important changes in their usage over time.
Paula Peremiquel-Trillas, Yolanda Benavente, Mayte Martín-Bustamante, Delphine Casabonne, Beatriz Pérez-Gómez, Inés Gómez-Acebo, Anna Oliete-Canela, Marta Diéguez-Rodríguez, Ignasi Tusquets, Pilar Amiano, Lourdes Mengual, Eva Ardanaz, Rocío Capelo, Antonio J. Molina de la Torre, Dolores Salas Trejo, Guillermo Fernández-Tardón, Virginia Lope, José J. Jimenez-Moleon, Rafael Marcos-Gragera, Trinidad Dierssen-Sotos, Mikel Azpiri, Montse Muñoz, Marcela Guevara, Tania Fernández-Villa, Ana Molina-Barceló, Nuria Aragonés, Marina Pollán, Gemma Castaño-Vinyals, Juan Alguacil, Manolis Kogevinas, Silvia de Sanjosé, Laura Costas   +31 more
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Workplace secondhand smoke exposure in the U.S. trucking industry. [PDF]

, 2010
BackgroundAlthough the smoking rate in the United States is declining because of an increase of smoke-free laws, among blue-collar workers it remains higher than that among many other occupational groups.ObjectivesWe evaluated the factors influencing ...
Chiu, Yueh-Hsiu, Dockery, Douglas W, Garshick, Eric, Hammond, S Katharine, Hart, Jaime E, Laden, Francine, Smith, Thomas J, Spiegelman, Donna   +7 more
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Outperforming the S&P 500 Using Top-Down Asset Allocation [PDF]

, 2016
This paper investigates whether portfolio managers can outperform the S&P 500 index using top-down asset allocation, using historical returns, standard deviations, and correlations of different asset classes.
Lanier, Benjamin
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Validity and repeatability of a simple index derived from the short physical activity questionnaire used in the European Prospective Investigation into Cancer and Nutrition (EPIC) study [PDF]

, 2003
Original article can be found at: http://journals.cambridge.org/action/displayJournal?jid=PHN Copyright The Authors.
Ainsworth, Day, Elia, James, Jantine Schuit, Jo Mitchell, Kirsten L Rennie, Nicholas E Day, Nicholas J Wareham, Rupert W Jakes, Susie Hennings   +10 more
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Sensitization and chronic beryllium disease at a primary manufacturing facility, part 1: historical exposure reconstruction

Scandinavian Journal of Work, Environment & Health, 2012
OBJECTIVES: Previous epidemiologic studies of beryllium sensitization (BeS) and chronic beryllium disease (CBD) have reported inconsistent exposure–response relationships, likely due to exposure misclassification.
M Abbas Virji, Ji Young Park, Aleksandr B Stefaniak, Marcia L Stanton, Gregory A Day, Michael S Kent, Kathleen Kreiss, Christine R Schuler   +7 more
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Magnitude of misclassification bias when using a job-exposure matrix.

Scandinavian Journal of Work, Environment & Health, 1992
A job-exposure matrix constructed in Southampton, the United Kingdom, was assessed with the use of 1205 occupational histories collected for a case-referent study on primary liver cancer in Finland. The odds ratios calculated on the basis of the matrix and an assessment by occupational hygienists were compared.
T P, Kauppinen, P O, Mutanen, J T, Seitsamo   +2 more
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Gene-environment interaction effects on lung function- a genome-wide association study within the Framingham heart study [PDF]

, 2013
Background: Previous studies in occupational exposure and lung function have focused only on the main effect of occupational exposure or genetics on lung function.
Christiani, David C, Liao, Shu-Yi, Lin, Xihong   +2 more
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[Design and validation of a job-exposure matrix to silica].

Revista de saude publica, 2005
OBJETIVO: Desenvolver matriz de exposição ocupacional de base populacional para a sílica cristalina no Brasil e estimar sua validade. MÉTODOS: A matriz de exposição ocupacional foi desenvolvida por um epidemiologista e um higienista ocupacional em quatro etapas: a) codificação da variável ocupação; b) codificação da variável setor econômico; c ...
Ribeiro, Fátima Sueli Neto, Camargo, Esther Archer de, Wünsch Filho, Victor   +2 more
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{iFair}: {L}earning Individually Fair Data Representations for Algorithmic Decision Making [PDF]

, 2018
People are rated and ranked, towards algorithmic decision making in an increasing number of applications, typically based on machine learning. Research on how to incorporate fairness into such tasks has prevalently pursued the paradigm of group fairness:
Gummadi, K., Lahoti, P., Weikum, G.
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Occupational exposures and exacerbations of asthma and COPD-A general population study.

PLoS ONE, 2020
PurposeRecent studies suggest that occupational inhalant exposures trigger exacerbations of asthma and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, but findings are conflicting.MethodsWe included 7,768 individuals with self-reported asthma (n = 3,215) and/or ...
Stinna Skaaby, Esben Meulengracht Flachs, Peter Lange, Vivi Schlünssen, Jacob Louis Marott, Charlotte Brauer, Børge G Nordestgaard, Steven Sadhra, Om Kurmi, Jens Peter Ellekilde Bonde   +9 more
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